Ok.. Who gave me the stupid pill?

Why o why would I do this to myself? The other day I decided it would be a good idea to update to the latest testing drivers for my HVR-1600 cards. Not the brightest move, for sure. Fortunately for me, Project Runway runs all the time. The wife was not to terribly pleased..

PS – Don’t do this during season premiere kickoff week either.

HD-PVR/HVR-1600 32-bit Compatibility fixed!

User trueno on the SageTV forums posted this patch which adds full ioctl support for a 32-bit software package running with these 64-bit drivers in Linux. If you have both devices like I do, I would suggest the following implementation:

1. ~#>hg clone http://hg.jannau.net/hdpvr/
2. ~#>cd hdpvr
3. ~#>hg pull http://linuxtv.org/hg/~awalls/v4l-dvb/
4. ~#>hg merge
5. ~#>hg commit
6. ~#>wget -O sage64.patch.zip http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=7049&d=1218594284
7. ~#>unzip sage64.patch.zip sage64.patch
8. ~#>cat sage64.patch | patch -p1
9. ~#>hg merge
10. ~#>hg commit
11. ~#>make menuconfig #select/deselect the options
12. ~#>make
13. ~#>sudo make install
14. ~#>sudo reboot

Have fun. In testing HVR-1600s do not throw dmesg errors and I haven’t hooked the hd-pvr back up to Linux yet –b